Solutions

Municipalities

Parkling provides unique solutions for smart cities. We help increase parking fee revenues and the efficiency of parking management spending, reduce emissions, enhance safety and monitor road inventory in cities.

  • Efficient use of parking space. Parkling's data serves as a reliable basis for planning of parking fees and expanding paid parking zones. In this way, cities can increase their parking fee revenues where demand is particularly high or expand parking management accordingly.

  • Reduced parking search traffic. This leads to a reduction in CO2, pollution, and noise and contributes significantly to meet a city’s climate goals, whilst improving air quality. An 50% reduction in parking search time powered by Parkling’s technology would bring 50 kg of CO2 reduction per driver each year.

  • Increased safety. Second row parking is a hinderance for emergency vehicles, buses and municipal service vehicles. The problem of second row parking and illegal parking on dedicated handicapped parking spots or e-charging parking bays is reduced with accurate data on available parking spaces for city drivers.

  • Accurate roadside inventory. Parkling also captures roadside inventory, from trees to bus stops to street signs. This includes snapshots of the number, exact GPS position and current condition of a city's roadside inventory, as well as an overview of road blockages and construction sites.


Parkling won the 2018 Stockholm competition for the future of on-street enforcement. For this project, Parkling provided high-quality static parking maps to optimise operations for parking enforcement.

With this digital innovation, the shift to sustainable traffic in cities takes a big step forward – and Parkling's data service is an important pillar for the sustainable mobility of tomorrow.

Automotive Industry

Parkling’s On-Street Parking Information Services have been designed to serve the individual needs of the automotive industry. A key advantage is the global scalability of Parkling’s technology.

Our approach and our technology allow us to optimise our prediction and information services along the three dimensions of:

  • Coverage and roll-out speed

  • Prediction accuracy and users’ perceived quality

  • Cost efficiency

Our data scanning processes are highly automated, largely flexible, quickly scalable, fully GDPR compliant, and do not rely on third-party IP or complex regulatory approvals. Our quality assurance processes continuously monitor data quality – for highest quality requirements we also provide a real-time quality assurance process.

We also provide optimal parking route guidance, as well as static parking data such as position of signs and parking regulations.

Our data can be integrated by OEMs and OEM suppliers into their apps or in-car navigation systems. Parkling serves OEMs via its holding company PARK NOW Group. PARK NOW’s Automotive Solutions Unit brings the required automotive know-how, experience, operating platform technology, and long-term financial stability to serve OEMs.

 

Fleet-scanner performance monitoring dashboard

Motorists

Parkling's parking data is already available to millions of users in many European cities.
The PARK NOW Group already uses Parkling's parking data in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, among others, and makes it available exclusively to its customers in the Find & Park function of its apps.
You can see parking predictions in the following countries and cities:

Germany: Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Ludwigshafen (Q3 2021), Mannheim (Q3 2021), Mönchengladbach (Q3 2021), Reutlingen

Netherlands and Belgium: Almere (Q3 2021), Amsterdam, Antwerp (Q3 2021), Brussels (Q3 2021), Eindhoven (Q3 2021), Haarlem (Q3 2021), Leiden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht

How can you find and use our on-street parking predictions?
First choose and download the right app for your country (see links below).

In the PARK NOW app and the ParkMobile app you find an option to activate “on-street parking” predictions. On a map view you see the streets displayed in a colour scale ranging from dark green to orange. Dark green means there is a high chance of finding a parking spot.

You can see which streets are likely to offer free parking spaces even before you begin your trip and you can head for them directly. The data helps you to arrive at your destination stress-free.
On top of that the apps allow you to pay for on-street and off-street parking contactless and cashless.
In order to get the best-in-class information to find on-street parking quickly download the following apps based on your location:

For Germany:

For Netherlands & Belgium:

Technology

Our cutting-edge technology to create on-street parking predictions is unique in the market and has been completely developed in-house. It consists of three key elements:

·      Static parking data scanning to create a static parking map

·      Dynamic parking data scanning to capture the parking dynamics

·      Prediction engine to create parking spot availability predictions

Static parking data scanning

Firstly, we scan cities with our own static scanning technology to create a highly detailed map of the parking spot locations, all corresponding parking rules and restrictions, and all non-parking areas.

Dynamic parking data scanning

Secondly, we deploy our proprietary LIDAR-based fleet-scanners to collect occupancy data and to capture the overall parking dynamics. The scanners are deployed on vehicles that are operating in the cities already, such as cab, ride hailing, or delivery fleets.

Parkling’s fleet-scanners monitor the parking situation in real-time across cities

 

Prediction engine

Finally, the data is processed by our highly automated data processing engine, which generates the prediction data. To produce highly accurate prediction data, our sophisticated algorithms only need a relatively small number of fleet-scanners per city to cover areas with parking pressure.

Parkling’s technology & data collection process